Laudan Nooshin

Laudan Nooshin gained her BA in Music from the University of Leeds and her MMus in Ethnomusicology from Goldsmiths' College (University of London), where she also taught between 1987 and 1991. Her PhD (Goldsmiths' College, 1996) was a study of creative performance in Iranian classical music. Between 1993 and 2004, Laudan taught in the Department of Performing Arts at Brunel University. She has been at City, University of London since 2004 and has held a number of course leadership positions during this time - BMus, MA, PhD and DMA Programme Director - and from 2017 to 2020 was Head of the Music Department.

Laudan is an active researcher working in the broad fields of urban sound studies, film music studies, popular music studies and contemporary music cultures, with a particular focus on Iran and the Middle East.

She is currently working as an AHRC Innovation Scholar, seconded to the theatre consultancy company Charcoalblue , working on a project entitled ‘Place-making Through Sound: Designing for Inclusivity and Wellbeing’

In 2022, Laudan was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for the project Sonic Tehran: Tehran's Historical and Contemporary Sound Spaces from which a book is currently in process.